1950s
This 1954 court case desegregated public places.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This is the notion that if one country falls to communism then surrounding countries are likely to fall as well.
What is the domino theory?
Norma McCorvey was the plaintiff in this landmark 1973 court case that was recently overturned in the Supreme Court.
What is Roe v. Wade?
This is the new disease that the nation faced in the 1980s.
What is AIDS?
This person won the election of 1992.
Who is Bill Clinton?
The launch of Sputnik was embarrassing for the US in 1957. This led to an educational emphasis on these two subjects.
What are math and science?
This is the name of Johnson's domestic policies.
What is the Great Society?
In 1973, the American Indian Movement occupied this famous location in memory of the massacre at Wounded Knee.
What is Alcatraz?
Reagan's economic strategy was to cut taxes for this group of people.
Who are the wealthy?
This is the 'graying of America'.
What is the average American is getting older?
Many middle-class Americans moved out of the cities and into these communities.
What are the suburbs? (or Levittowns)
In 1965, Ralph Nade published Unsafe at Any Speed. Later car companies had to do this.
What is spending money on safety features, like seatbelts?
Nixon made efforts to especially appeal to this region of the country by appealing to white racial grievances.
What is the south (Southern Strategy)?
The Moral Majority helped Reagan get elected in 1980. This group of people had this in common. (name one of the reasons)
-They were religious
-They were worried about the decline of traditional families
-They were concerned by the counterculture
NAFTA is between these three countries.
What are Mexico, the United States, and Canada?
________ of Americans were below the poverty line; many of these Americans were people of color
What is 1/4 or 25% or one quarter?
New laws passed in the mid-1960s that got rid of these two barriers to Black people voting.
What are poll taxes and literacy tests?
This is the scandal that led to Nixon's downfall as a politician.
What is Watergate?
This is the VP to Reagan that became president in 1989..
Who is George Bush?
This is predicted to be the largest minority group in the US by 2050.
What is the Latino population?
In 1953, the US government ended economic support for this group of people. The termination policy lasted until 1963.
Who are Native Americans?
Tim Leary encouraged young people to do this.
What is dropping out and doing drugs?
Carter's greatest foreign policy accomplishment was when he brought leaders from these two Middle East countries together for the Camp David Accords.
What are Israel and Egypt?
This physical barrier came down in Germany during Reagan's presidency, signaling the near end of the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This is the reason Bill Clinton was impeached in 1998.
What is perjury, or lying under oath?